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fredgarvin
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Adjusted for inflation, it's the third-biggest movie ever.
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Disney is destroying Star Wars...
OhYePoorFools
12/1/15 9:35pm
Jar Jar already destroyed Star Wars
CougarCanuck76
12/1/15 9:37pm
George Lucas did it first.
Turnpike Lane
12/1/15 9:38pm
No way...there is so much Star Wars crap for sale now, that it is almost comical
OhYePoorFools
12/1/15 9:41pm
Lucas built his films around merchandising from ESB on
Turnpike Lane
12/1/15 9:57pm
Bro, every one since ROTJ has been this way.
GuitarGuy
12/1/15 9:40pm
I was 4 in 1983 as well...there is no way it compares to what Disney is doing
OhYePoorFools
12/1/15 9:43pm
By comparison, yes it was. It was also pre Internet
Downtown
12/1/15 9:52pm
I don't buy it. The reach that Disney has today dwarfs any corporate enterprise
OhYePoorFools
12/1/15 10:01pm
So I'm guessing you never saw Revenge of the Jedi?
shimmy
12/1/15 9:40pm
Coldplay always sucked, just like hatb(f). Star wars has always been big.
Cougarrrs
12/1/15 9:41pm
If you saw either of those bands in a club w/ 50 people before they got big, you
OhYePoorFools
12/1/15 9:47pm
If I were a hipster, you're right, I would think that. But I'm not a hipster.
Cougarrrs
12/1/15 9:49pm
I don't believe it...there are some bands that are good but it is uncool to
OhYePoorFools
12/1/15 9:55pm
You know what the most hipster thing to do is? Hate on hipsters.
Cougarrrs
12/1/15 10:02pm
Exactly...which is what you did. You are clearly a closet hipster. Like the
OhYePoorFools
12/1/15 10:07pm
*sniff* *sniff* YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD! *sniff*
Cougarrrs
12/1/15 10:17pm
RE: Disney is destroying Star Wars...
AllHailTheOverlord
12/1/15 9:43pm
Lucas started ruining it in 1997. Finished the job w/the prequels
Downtown
12/1/15 9:51pm
Fast and Furious 8, MI6, countless superhero movies......i doubt the public gets
BYUheaven
12/1/15 9:51pm
All credibility lost just for thinking Hootie & the Blowfish were EVER any good
kalifi
12/1/15 9:56pm
* closet hipster alert
OhYePoorFools
12/1/15 10:32pm
It doesn't take a hipster to recognize that Hootie & the Blowfish sucked from
DB Cooper
12/2/15 2:35am
I've never been a huge Star Wars fan. All this publicity is kind of pulling me
Disco LaFleur
12/1/15 10:00pm
RE: Disney is destroying Star Wars...
fredgarvin
12/1/15 10:04pm
Exclusivity has always been desireable...ever more so now, with the Internet....
OhYePoorFools
12/1/15 10:10pm
What do you propose they do? Make a new Star Wars on the down low? Only show it
Disco LaFleur
12/1/15 10:21pm
No...I guess I am making a commentary about the all or nothing commercial
OhYePoorFools
12/1/15 10:28pm
I see what you're saying, but business is business. Of course they'll do all
Disco LaFleur
12/1/15 10:41pm
Disco clubs to be precise!
greatbam
12/2/15 1:15am
Yeah...Star Wars was never that.
fredgarvin
12/1/15 10:21pm
Exactly. The original (a new hope) was the box office record holder for 5 yrs
Cougarrrs
12/1/15 10:25pm
Adjusted for inflation, it's the third-biggest movie ever.
fredgarvin
12/1/15 10:37pm
Star Wars was cultish for about 3 weeks in 1977.
Scratch
12/1/15 10:04pm
Choppy production? What are you smoking? Those were ground breaking in their
Coach's Dad
12/1/15 10:15pm
There's never been a better time to be a Star Wars fan than now.
SpiffCoug
12/1/15 10:31pm
I predict you'll be burned out in a year or 2.
OhYePoorFools
12/1/15 10:34pm
I've been a Star Wars fan for 34 years, I don't plan on stopping
SpiffCoug
12/2/15 8:07am
Have a Pabst Blue Ribbon to drown out that commercialization
Cheesy Gordita
12/1/15 10:36pm
The first wise comment of the evening...there is little that a tall glass of
OhYePoorFools
12/1/15 10:39pm
You mean when it was like this?
grosven
12/1/15 10:46pm
Coldplay and Hootie were never good or cool.
Backcountry
12/2/15 12:30am
Star Wars has never been cultish and strangely cool. Always been mainstream
LifeLongLakerFan
12/2/15 12:48am
I suggest googling star wars and toyetic. Star wars has a long merchandising
Non-donor troll
12/2/15 4:58am
hootie went away because fairweather johnson sucked.
bald man
12/2/15 6:31am
I'm guessing you weren't around in late seventies or early eighties.
thaws
12/2/15 6:38am
It sold for $4B. You were off by 50%.
it's a great time for Star Wars fans
SpiffCoug
12/2/15 8:08am
Oops--
thaws
12/2/15 8:15am
you lost me when you compared Star Wars to Hootie and the Blowfish
TheDeek
12/2/15 8:27am
So when I had a ESB lunchbox in 2nd grade, I was cool and cultish?
Carnac el Magnifico
12/2/15 8:58am
Hoodie and Coldplay are terrible and always have been. Terrible comparison
dizthewiz
12/2/15 11:33pm
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